Do we not find that the most robust of men express no thoughts at all? They eat, drink, sleep, and copulate in silence. What better proof of the fact that all thought is dis-ease?
Aleister Crowley, Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, Chapter 85, Κεφαλη Πε, Borborygmi
The soul is beyond male and female as it is beyond Life and Death. Even as the Lingam and the Yoni are but diverse developments of One Organ, so also are Life and Death but two phases of One State. So also the Absolute and the Conditioned are but forms of THAT. What do I love? There is no form, no being, to which I do not give myself wholly up.
Aleister Crowley, Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, 35 Κεφαλη Λε Venus of Milo
Commentary (ΜΖ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“There is a great deal of cynicism in this book, in one place and another. It should be regarded as Angostura Bitters, to brighten the flavour of a discourse which were else too sweet. It prevents one from slopping over into sentimentality.” [via]
Commentary (ΜΖ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The penultimate paragraph is introduced by way of repose. Cynicism is a great cure for over-study.” [via]
Commentary (ΜΖ) on ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“The chapter consists of two points of view from which to regard Yoga, two odes upon a distant prospect of the Temple of Madura, two Elegies on a mat of Kusha-grass.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Homard à la Thermidor destroys the digestion.
The last of these facts is the one of which I am most certain.” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Samadhi destroys the consciousness (Viññanam).” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Dharana destroys the perceptions (Sañña).
Dhyana destroys the tendencies (Sankhara).” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Yama destroys the emotions.
Niyama destroys the passions.
} (Vedana)” [via]
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΜΖ Windmill-Words in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
“Asana destroys the static body (Nama).
Pranayama destroys the dynamic body (Rupa).” [via]